If you can hear the difference between the words ship and sheep, then you already know something about long and short vowels of English.
The same idea applies to pairs such as look and Luke. These pairs are differentiated by their vowels only, which are often thought of as “long” and “short” variants of one vowel.
READ MORE: http://saundz.com/the-long-and-short-vowels-of-english/
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This one is an interesting example for the spellings of /i/ sound:
He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas.
Yeah, they can be very tricky and confusing.
Do you think it is important to learn more about them?
The vowels can be so challenging - Ch i na, but Engl i sh.